The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, linked to Halley's Comet, will peak overnight on May 5 and 6. The annual Eta Aquariid ...

Many Southern Hemisphere observers consider this shower to be the best meteor shower of the year, but it's a different story ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

As a comet spins up, it starts to fall apart, which is likely what is happening to Comet SWAN now before it ceases to be an ...

RASC & Explore Scientific set to celebrate International Astronomy Day by hosting Global Star Party from historic David ...

COIAS (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) is a web-based application that lets anyone search for Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) using images taken by the Subaru Telescope.

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

They were not looking at the sky but at images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. They were looking at the ...

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